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How to scare the kids at Mass

This YouTube video is not a cruel spoof knocked up by SSPX black propagandists in a basement somewhere. It's the real thing a post-Vatican II liturgy in all its self-indulgent splendour.

Note, incidentally, the average age of the congregation those Sandalistas are a good 30 years older than most traditionalists I know.

These days, your average Catholic trendy has grandchildren. On this occasion, however, they sensibly decided to leave the little ones at home. Just think how scary that giant Easter Island Christ would look to a two-year-old.

By the way, what's the betting that it was made during a "workshop"? Tablet-reading types can't go to the bathroom without holding a workshop first.